Why are we born? In my opinion, I view the world as a game nobody can win. For centuries people have struggled to find the answers to decipher our purpose, but really that answer lies six feet underground. I often wonder if we are just born to die, live day to day fighting our own wars to stay al...

There is Beauty All Around Anne Frank was a girl of strength and spirit. Reading her diary has lifted the days in my life where it seemed I would never rise again. Anne Frank was born into a Jewish family in Frankfurt, Germany the year of 1929. This was around the time when Hitler had come in...

"I hear-I forget, I see-I learn, I do-I understand."-- Gennady V. OsterToday I am happy for who I am. I believe every new day should be treated as a fresh start. I look upon life as a challenge and set many hard goals to achieve. Building on that, I take pleasure in keeping busy; I find it very d...

The Healing Place In the newborn silence of an early dawn, in the innocence of my arrested childhood, I beheld a sight of such artistry, such intensity, such absolute magnificence; even these words do no justice to it. Tears came to my eyes and my heart was near to bursting as I sank to my kne...

I'll never forget the way his fingers touched my face. The way he looked into my eyes was indescribable. It was as if we looking so far into me and grabbing a piece of my soul. I spent every day with him that summer. I learned what love was that summer. We were inseparable, and nothing coul...

"He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine ... A salesman is got to dream, boy". Charlie says this in Death of a Salesman. He says this to explain that without dreams a man has nothing to look forward to. Columbus' letter to Queen Isabella is an earl...

Winning the state title was one of the most thrilling experiences one could ever imagine. A new feeling was invented for me on the most beautiful day a basketball play would hope to ever live. The thriving passion I had to lead my team to victory was all I could depend on every second I was on tha...

I have come to a point in my life wherein the question "who are you?" has become the primordial pulse beating upon my temples. There are moments when things just seem so senseless that I forget why it is I am here. Sometimes it feels like the world is changing for all the wrong reasons. It...

The cold hum of the vents breathing the air conditioned breeze through out the abnormally still classroom is the only noise that interrupts the deafening silence. It catches my attention, not as a distraction, but as the focal point of my usually productive mind. It holds me there, as the complete...

Oz s The ageless classic The Wizard of Oz was one of my favorite children movies of all time. As children grow up, each one will at one time or another goes through a series of changes. Many change in different ways, some rebel, maturity levels differ from boys to girls. It also depend...

Cloudy Morning The morning golden sky was surrounding me in a distant haze. The sun and morning haze had started to churn and mix together. I felt as if I belonged in a painting. The beauty struck me and made me catch my breath. It was like your favorite pillow; it comforted me and made my mi...

reaching back for something that isn't there you suddenly feel you no longer care your once soft feelings are hard as stone and in your decisions you are now alone pages ripped out of your book of life the same as being stabbed with a butcher knife there's no direction, don't know who's ...

I hate gift exchanges. I hate the mystrey, I hate having to buy something for someone you barely know, I hate recieving that gift you never wanted and having to pretend like its the golden earings or bubble bath you hoped and dreamed of. And I hate the one gift exchange that made me hate all the r...

A Walk on the Beach There are very few who don't recognize the sights, sounds, and smells of one of the most visited places in history. Almost everyone has been there once in their lives, and even as small children, the experience never escapes. I have been fortunate to visit the beach numerou...

"Oh night in which the stars feign light, all night that alone is the size of Universe, make me, body and soul, part of your body, so that-being near darkness- I'll lose myself and become night as well without any dreams as stars within me, nor a hoped for sun shining with the future"...

A Remembering Event As the beautiful sky happily accompany with sunrays shine through the football field where the ceremony of my graduation took place. Someone above must have known it was my graduation day and blessed me with a beautiful day. I was so excited that the night before the gradua...

September, 11th has always been the special day for me. It is the day when my mom was born. It had become a family tradition to invite relatives and friends to our home on that day, cook and serve all kinds of delicious food and entertain the guests. We never miss any of her birthdays. These rare ...

Raising kids has always been a hard task to do. Be it in the prehistoric days or now days, including every country and every state. But the hardest thing to do it to raise a teenager. They are always up to mischief or no good. They like things their way or no way. It's very common to find ...

Eric Hess ROP Narrative I began my day in a rush, running over here, dashing over there, when all was said and done, I was ready for my big day, my date with Ceinwyn. It was a clear, cool winter morning, with nothing but beautiful Mt. Rainier in the skyline near my house. Finally, I was all re...

Standing in the land 11450 miles away from home with a language barrier, I felt lost. However, out with the old, in with the new. Everything has gone and something has changed this year. Every time when people ask me who I am, I can always get different answers and different definitions ...

I really hated the sound of that alarm clock, that piercing, irritating repeated beeping. After a second or two I slowly started realizing that it was not just another day, it was the day. I felt the movement in the bed as she reached for the clock and then the beeping stopped allowing m...

My Ultimate HappinessHappiness is hard to obtain in today's world. We all know that. For a lot people, they find bliss in reading. Reading puts them in another world. Whether they're escaping into a fictional or non-fictional existence depends on their state of mind . Although reading is not ...

Olin Hill English 50 One Day Part I The day was still, not a cloud in sight. The glowing sun lit the tumbling waves. The white foam smeared along the sandy beach. High above the ocean's front lie cliffs with grassy hilltops. A road wove through its tangled mess. There thoughts were bou...

It was 10:00 am and a beautiful summer day. The summer of 2011 was the time I was turning 16 and finally getting my permit. The only thing is that this story takes place when I was 15. I woke up to an empty house and felt free to do anything. Dad was at work, my brother was out and about, and my mom...

Love doesn't have to hurt but it often seems to. Love is such a strong positive emotion that it is inevitable that there will be some pain associated with it at the same time. We see this theme is being demonstrated in a movie called Onegin written by Alexander Pushkin. One of the scenes t...